Rupashree Nanda

New Delhi: After the landslide victory in the assembly elections in Delhi, it's time for the Aam Aadmi Party to get to business. Hectic parleys are underway over who will make it to the Cabinet in the state. According to sources, the party is likely to give a more prominent...

After the historic mandate in Delhi Assembly elections, Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party is getting ready for the bigger task od governing the national capital. While they met the central ministers and assured cooperation some of the contentious issues like full statehood for delhi did come up. ...

New Delhi: Even as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is still celebrating its massive majority in Delhi Assembly elections, the party has been asked by the Income Tax department to explain donations of over Rs 2 crore to the party. According to sources, the Income Tax notice has been served...

New Delhi: A day after the Aam Aadmi Party swept to power winning 96% of the seats in Delhi Assembly elections, party chief Arvind Kejriwal sent a message of thanks to the voters on radio. Kejriwal also invited Delhi residents for his oath-taking ceremony at the Ramlila Maidan on Saturday,...

AAP leaders Gul Panag and Raghav Chadha congratulated all AAP volunteers for their historic win in the Delhi elections. "Will strive to complete every promise on AAP manifesto. We have a well written and well thought through maifesto, said Gul Panag. ...

New Delhi: A day after nearly all exit polls predicted a comfortable majority for the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi, contradictory moods were witnessed in the Bharatiya Janata Party and AAP camps. While the AAP seems to be in a celebratory, relaxed mood, Delhi BJP chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi's...

With a day to go for the Delhi polls, AAP chief ministerial candidate Arvind Kejriwal said that people had made up their minds and wanted AAP for five years. "People liked our 49 days government, we worked hard. BJP has all the machinery and we have truth and god on...

"It is the story of a most remarkable comeback. If that finally happens, as I say it would, it would go down in history as one of the most remarkable comebacks of any political party. Rama Krishna Hegde did that in 1985 after that this would be the story," says...

Prime Minister Modi so far has been unable to sell Kiran Bedi as a CM candidate to the voters of Delhi, says Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN. He claims the people of Delhi have forgiven Arvind Kejriwal for quitting just 49 days in...

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi party (AAP) leader Shanti Bhushan snubbed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi on Friday after she sougth an appointment to meet him. "There is no point in meeting Bedi. We belong to two different parties," said Shanti Bhushan just a day after praising...

It was a day of embarrassments for the AAP as Shanti Bhushan one of the founder members of the party has praised Kiran Bedi as a better CM candidate for Delhi than Arvind Kejriwal. However, his son and AAP leader Prashant Bhushan stepped in for some damage control saying he...

While BJP and Congress have detailed campaign strategies to reach out to voters through various platforms, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is relying on its main face Arvind Kejriwal. They are focusing more on padyatras and direct interactions with voters. ...

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, who was due to file his nomination papers for the Delhi Assembly polls, will now be submitting the papers on Wednesday. Apparently, the AAP chief could not file his nomination as he got delayed due to his roadshow in the national capital....

The Battle for Delhi intensifies as Aam Admi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday alleged that Kiran Bedi is being made a scapegoat by the BJP. He also alleged that the BJP are afraid of losing the Delhi elections. ...

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Yogendra Yadav claimed on Monday that his party will rewrite history once again. Soon after the Election Commission declared the election schedule for the Delhi Assembly elections, Yadav said it would be a straight battle between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and AAP....

New Delhi: As the winter session of Parliament witnessed a washout, the CPM leader Sitaram Yechury blamed the Narendra Modi government for it. Parliament was adjourned repeatedly over the alleged forced conversion row. Yechury said, "I think it was the government who stalled it, not us." Here is the full...

New Delhi: Former Rural Development Minister and Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh, who piloted the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, has slammed the Narendra Modi government for bringing in an Ordinance that dilutes key provisions of the Act. Ramesh says,...

While accepting that the Bharatiya Janta Party has an advantage in West Bengal, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury claimed that but people are not moving towards the BJP. Yechury also said that the Left will take time to revive. ...

New Delhi: Even after its leaders have been booked in Meerut for conducting rituals to build a temple in Nathuram Godse's honor, the All India Hindu Mahasabha has declared that it will go ahead with its agenda of installing Mahatma Gandhi's assassin's statues across the country. Can the increasing vocal...

Speaking to CNN-IBN, Senior Congress leader PL Punia said, "We had a government with JMM and there were lot of complainants and cases of corruptions against JMM. We also shared that blame though we were not involved in those corruption cases. So that was the one of the impacts behind...

Bhopal: Swaraj Puri was the Bhopal Superintendent of Police when the deadly Methyl IsoCyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory in the middle of the night of December 2, 1984. Puri has faced criticism for safely escorting the then the Union Carbide Corporation chairman and CEO Warren Anderson to...

Bhopal: Thirty years after the catastrophic leak of lethal Methyl Isocyanate from the Carbide plant in Bhopal, T R Chouhan who was the Chemical Plant Operator and in charge of storage tank 610 till November 25, 1984, returns to its crumbling remains to tell us how India's worst industrial disaster...

New Delhi: Journalist Rajkumar Keswani shot into fame in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984. His passionate stories in 1982, warning of the disaster waiting to happen were ignored. Keswani was so convinced about the threat the pesticide plant of UCIL posed to Bhopal that he wrote...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi followed up on his Independence Day pledge to dismantle the Planning Commission by holding the first meeting with Chief Ministers on Sunday. The Prime Minister said there's need to create a new institution in the spirit of 'cooperative federalism', a body that will encourage the planning...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi followed up on his Independence day pledge to dismantle Planning Commission by holding the first consultation meeting with chief ministers on Sunday. The PM said there is a need to create a new institution in the spirit of "cooperative federalism", a body that will...

New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday hit out at chief ministers for skipping the Planning Commission meet by saying that it was against the interest of the nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting with Chief Ministers on the structure and role of the new...

The Bhopal tragedy was a disaster in the making as several warnings were ignored. The carbide plant at Bhopal was inferior in design to the one at Virginia and local administration had no information about the nature of the toxic gas that had leaked. ...